Hot Air Balloon: Blowing It Up

Michele, Dave, Irwin, and Jay are in the able hands of Captain Tim as they learn what to expect on their first balloon trip and watch their ride inflate! Fly over to Design2Share.com for videos, tips, blogs, columns, and lots of advice for home design and decorating.

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[applesweeter]

Dear All,

I have some questions about psychology:

(1) Why do we love flying?

(2) Why do we like to fly hot-air-balloon?

(3) Why do we enjoy to design and to make balloons with various funny and cartoon shapes?

(4) Why do like to fly and to watch hot-air-balloon with funny or cartoon shapes?

(5) What is the enjoyment to fly hot-air-balloon comparing with that on an aeroplane?

THANK YOU IN ADVANCE for your creative ideas and brainstorm!!! :)

[westend104]

@applesweeter For us, it wasn't so much that we loved flying, but it was more that it was an exciting and exhilarating experience that we wanted to try at least once. And we're very glad we did! We loved the peace and quiet and the amazing views - but the height itself was frightening as well as the surprisingly short basket walls coming only to our belts (felt psychologically like we could fall out too easily).

[QullVideo]

am i the only one to get a fear from looking up inside a hot air baloon? i think it might be the opposite to phobia of tight spaces.

[westend104]

@QullVideo Nope! You are in good company! It feels like I'm losing my balance to look up at anything tall, and that includes the inside of the balloon. (And I hate tight spaces, too, so call me King of the Phobias.) I probably would have been scared to death on this balloon flight if I hadn't been recording it; it really helped to have something else to do. No regrets, but I'm sure I won't do it again.

[tashdog1]

since 2001 i have always wanted to learn how to fly one so i thought i would start here this year as now got plenty money

[westend104]

@tashdog1  Good luck! It was really a cool experience.

[cdebbi1]

Very nicely done pliot briefing, too!

[richie74wells]

what happens if the strings holding the balloon snap

[applesweeter]

@westend104

Yes, It is a different feeling comparing with flying with a Boeing jet.

I have 2 more interesting questions:

(1) How should be design a flying homesimilar to that at Disney "UP" animation moive?

(2) Why do some people like to live in a flyingh house?

(3) How will be our life style changed if we live in a flying house?

[daytonmichaelphilpot]

Well when they were filling it up with air they were holding the strings and with are hot air balloon we hold the mouth and also the one guy almost steped on the wind skirt

[ParaglidingManiac]

Why does one side have a "wall"? What is it for?